Sam Ruby

Our guest today is someone you've probably heard of or known about without even knowing it.

If you've ever subscribed to a feed on the internet, you can thank Sam Ruby for part of that because as of 2003, he was really in the lead of kicking off what is known as the Atom Standard for feeds.

He also helped build the Feed Validator.

He's been a leader at the Apache Software Foundation, including a short bit as president.

He just came back from giving a keynote speech at Deck and Queen in Pune, where the conference chat was Basecamp's campfire compiled to a single native binary with no Ruby inside.

Oh, and by the way, he and his wife are ballroom dancing fans, which maybe we'll hear about during the show today.

So Sam Ruby, welcome to the Ping Back podcast.

Oh, great to be here.

Yeah.

And there is one which I'm really interested about, is the Sam Ruby one, because it's about roundhouse and how this whole Ruby 2C2 binary path would work or could work to speed up Rails apps.

Because we talked about this last week that we both hear about this roundhouse and spinner and how it get a lot of traction, but we didn't really know how it works.

Now I looked into it since last week.

If you are using certain Ruby features, like heavy meta-programming, it's not going to work.

And then there came another person who is really good to have in the Ruby community called Sam Ruby.

He's actually retired a few years ago, but now he came back to save us probably.

And he started to work on this roundhouse idea, which is a... think he calls it a compiler i haven't looked into the details so i might be totally wrong yeah i haven't i haven't looked

Is there anything we want to chat on before we wrap things up for the day?

Yes, one thing I really want to mention is there will be a conference next week in India, Deacon on Rails, Deacon Queen on Rails, I think that's the whole name.

And if you can still buy a ticket, get the visa and get there, it's really interesting because the Roundhouse guy, Sam Ruby, is going to do a keynote there.

Ah, sweet.